Nasamones

The Nasamones were a nomadic Berber tribe inhabiting southeast Libya. They lived at the Augila and Siwa oases, and they were known to attack Greek colonies in Cyrenaica. The Roman emperor Augustus attempted to pacify the desert tribes, and, in 15 BC, the Nasamones were temporarily subjugated. They rose up a century later when the Romans tried to extort money from them, but they were pushed back into the interior of North Africa by the Roman general Gnaeus Suellius Flaccus. The Nasamones later became vassals of the Eastern Roman Empire and became a Christian semi-nomadic tribe, remaining so until the Islamic conquests.